This both made me laugh and made me SO hungry. If I want to try ordering, but I’m allergic to certain things (e.g., shellfish, gluten, eggs), do you have any tips for reading the ingredient labels?
Because Yamibuy sells these items in the US, they follow US law in printing an ingredients and nutrition label. The website shows photos of the label for everything, but the writing can be too small to see for some of them. If it's a super cheap item, I might buy one and then look at the label? If you can't eat it, you can always gift it to friends.
I've always wondered whether people who grew up using chopsticks have as much trouble using knife-and-fork as I do using chopsticks. But I suppose nowadays forks are used widely in SE Asian countries too.
It's also a hell of a lot more intuitive than chopsticks and require a lot less finesse. I never used knife-and-forks before leaving China, and I kinda grasped the idea in a single meal.
Thanks for sharing, sounds so delicious and I laughed out loud a couple of times! So frustrating that that so much of the food is out for me because I only eat vegan these days T_T
Oh yeah. It'd be a lot easier just working around vegetarian restrictions, but eggs and milk cuts a lot of stuff out. I think you might still be able to try out the congee options?
with regards to the comment on milk chocolate, most american chocolate manufacturers, especially hershey's, use different (and imo worse-tasting) recipes than the rest of the world. there's still no conclusion over if hershey's adds more butyric acid on purpose or if it's just a side effect of their milk processing, but either way the milk chocolate you can get in china probably is literally chemically different.
I know Hershey's is especially bad. I had no idea other American chocolate manufacturers do the same thing. I've tried every single brand of chocolate available in my local supermarket, and they're all either too sweet, or too weird in texture.
We also have crispy noodles in Hong Kong, but it's called 媽咪麵, and I am surprised they haven't been de-trademarked yet.
Can second Senbei and white rabbit candy in particular, as well as fish tofu in general. Rice dumplings (= zongzi) are best eaten sweet, as even the savory ones we add sugar to.
Does America not have roasted chestnuts as a Christmas time snack? In France there are street vendors roasting chestnuts everywhere once December comes around. I live in the UK where it's not as common and I miss the street-roasted chestnuts, I can't reliably reproduce the taste at home ;_;
Chinese chestnuts not quite roasted. The way China makes them is like...well, it's literally fried with a bunch of sand in a wok. I don't really know if there's a terminology for it. I don't think I've ever had proper western roasted chestnuts?
As an American--roasted chestnuts are an old-fashioned traditional Christmastime snack that very few people actually eat, in my experience, despite the carol about chestnuts roasting on an open fire. I've made them a couple of times when the local grocery store offered chestnuts for sale in December.
Fun fact: the American Chestnut tree is nearly extinct due to a fungal blight that started spreading in the early 20th century. I think this might be why eating chestnuts is less common here now. The Chinese chestnut species is more resistant to the fungus but it's not commonly planted.
I am pretty sure the near extinction of the American chestnut is why we don't eat more chestnuts. I also think that chestnuts don't store as well as other nuts.
There are efforts to get the old chestnut forests back though. Anyone interested should look into acf.org
This both made me laugh and made me SO hungry. If I want to try ordering, but I’m allergic to certain things (e.g., shellfish, gluten, eggs), do you have any tips for reading the ingredient labels?
Because Yamibuy sells these items in the US, they follow US law in printing an ingredients and nutrition label. The website shows photos of the label for everything, but the writing can be too small to see for some of them. If it's a super cheap item, I might buy one and then look at the label? If you can't eat it, you can always gift it to friends.
I've always wondered whether people who grew up using chopsticks have as much trouble using knife-and-fork as I do using chopsticks. But I suppose nowadays forks are used widely in SE Asian countries too.
It's also a hell of a lot more intuitive than chopsticks and require a lot less finesse. I never used knife-and-forks before leaving China, and I kinda grasped the idea in a single meal.
Thanks for sharing, sounds so delicious and I laughed out loud a couple of times! So frustrating that that so much of the food is out for me because I only eat vegan these days T_T
Oh yeah. It'd be a lot easier just working around vegetarian restrictions, but eggs and milk cuts a lot of stuff out. I think you might still be able to try out the congee options?
True, thanks for reminding me :) and the hickory nuts sounded really nice as well, will look out for an Asia market.
with regards to the comment on milk chocolate, most american chocolate manufacturers, especially hershey's, use different (and imo worse-tasting) recipes than the rest of the world. there's still no conclusion over if hershey's adds more butyric acid on purpose or if it's just a side effect of their milk processing, but either way the milk chocolate you can get in china probably is literally chemically different.
I know Hershey's is especially bad. I had no idea other American chocolate manufacturers do the same thing. I've tried every single brand of chocolate available in my local supermarket, and they're all either too sweet, or too weird in texture.
We also have crispy noodles in Hong Kong, but it's called 媽咪麵, and I am surprised they haven't been de-trademarked yet.
Can second Senbei and white rabbit candy in particular, as well as fish tofu in general. Rice dumplings (= zongzi) are best eaten sweet, as even the savory ones we add sugar to.
Adding sugar to savory zongzi? O.o What fresh hell is this.
Now I really want to try hickory nuts!
Does America not have roasted chestnuts as a Christmas time snack? In France there are street vendors roasting chestnuts everywhere once December comes around. I live in the UK where it's not as common and I miss the street-roasted chestnuts, I can't reliably reproduce the taste at home ;_;
Chinese chestnuts not quite roasted. The way China makes them is like...well, it's literally fried with a bunch of sand in a wok. I don't really know if there's a terminology for it. I don't think I've ever had proper western roasted chestnuts?
As an American--roasted chestnuts are an old-fashioned traditional Christmastime snack that very few people actually eat, in my experience, despite the carol about chestnuts roasting on an open fire. I've made them a couple of times when the local grocery store offered chestnuts for sale in December.
Fun fact: the American Chestnut tree is nearly extinct due to a fungal blight that started spreading in the early 20th century. I think this might be why eating chestnuts is less common here now. The Chinese chestnut species is more resistant to the fungus but it's not commonly planted.
I am pretty sure the near extinction of the American chestnut is why we don't eat more chestnuts. I also think that chestnuts don't store as well as other nuts.
There are efforts to get the old chestnut forests back though. Anyone interested should look into acf.org